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CLAIMED BY THE RUTHLESS ALPHA KING chapter 12
Chapter Twelve: What They FoundHe didn't come back for almost two hours. I know because I counted, sitting in that chair with the blanket around my shoulders, watching the fire burn down to nothing and refusing to feed it, like doing something normal might jinx whatever was happening outside.When he finally walked back in, his face told me before he said a word. Something bad."What happened," I said, standing up too fast, the blanket sliding off my shoulders."We caught him. The man from the kitchen." Damian shut the door behind him, leaned against it a second like his legs needed the support. "He didn't make it far. Kael's men had him cornered near the stables.""Is he talking?""Not yet. He will." Something flat and hard came into his voice, the kind of flat I hadn't heard from him before, not even at the feast with Ashby. "He wasn't alone, Elara. There were markers near the east wall. Signs somebody else had been through recently, checking the grounds, mapping the guard rotation
CLAIMED BY THE RUTHLESS ALPHA KING chapter 11
Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the DarkCouldn't sleep after the feast. there was too much sitting in my head, Ashby's needling, Kael's warning, the look on Damian's face right before he turned back to his court. Gave up somewhere past midnight and went looking for water instead of just staring at the ceiling.The kitchens were empty that late, everybody long gone to bed, just banked coals glowing low in the hearth and the smell of bread from whatever they'd baked earlier. Found a cup, filled it, stood there a minute just breathing, glad for one room in that castle that didn't come with somebody watching me.Then I heard it. Footsteps in the corridor, slow, careful, the kind of careful that's not about respecting anybody's sleep. I froze, cup halfway to my mouth, listening.They stopped right outside the door.Told myself it was probably a guard doing rounds. Kept telling myself that right up until the door eased open an inch, no knock, nothing, just a sliver of dark hallway and somebo
CLAIMED BY THE RUTHLESS ALPHA KING chapter 10
Chapter Ten: The FeastThree day later, Greta told me there will be a formal feast, the first since I got here, which is meant to put me in front of the wider court instead of just the handful of nobles who ate at the King's table most days. She said it more like a warning than an announcement."Wear something that doesn't apologize for you being here," she said, laying out a deep red dress, heavier and finer than anything else she'd given me so far. "Ashby will be watching for anything he can use. Give him nothing.""I don't know how to give a room like that nothing.""You stood in front of your own pack the night you lost everything and didn't fall apart." Plain, not unkind, just true. "You know how. You've done it before."I thought about that a lot getting ready, about the girl in that clearing three months back, chin up, spine straight, refusing to let anybody watch her come apart twice. Didn't feel much like her anymore, not exactly, but I found some of that same stubbornness p
CLAIMED BY THE RUTHLESS ALPHA KING chapter 9
Chapter Nine: What the Body RemembersI went looking for the library again the next afternoon and got turned around somewhere past the east wing, ended up in a part of the castle I hadn't seen yet, stone corridors narrower than the ones near my room, less decorated, more like the place actually worked for a living instead of just looking important. I heard the noise before I found the source of it. Metal on metal, fast, controlled, somebody breathing hard.I followed it without really deciding to.The room I found was some kind of private training space, smaller than the yard Kael had been running the day before, empty except for Damian and one other man circling each other with practice blades, both of them stripped down to nothing but loose trousers, sweat cutting clean lines through the dust on their skin. I stopped in the doorway and should have turned around right then. I didn't.Damian moved like something that had been built for exactly this and nothing else, fast, economical,
CLAIMED BY THE RUTHLESS ALPHA KING chapter 8
Chapter Eight: KaelI found the training yard by accident, wandering around the grounds the next morning because my room felt like it was too small and the rest of the castle was easier to handle when I had somewhere to walk toward. A dozen wolves were sparring in pairs, bare feet on packed dirt, and off to the side a man stood watching with his arms crossed, calling out corrections that sounded like insults and somehow didn't land as offense.He clocked me before I'd figured out whether to keep walking or turn back."You're the King's intended." Plain, no edge to it, which after Ashby and the advisor woman felt almost like a break. "Kael Voss. Run his guard, when I'm not making his life harder in other ways.""Elara.""I know." Almost a smile. "Everybody knows. You've been the only thing anyone's talked about all week."I didn't have much to say back, so I just watched the sparring instead, glad for something to look at that wasn't a person sizing me up."You don't have to just stand
CLAIMED BY THE RUTHLESS ALPHA KING chapter 7
Chapter Seven: Black Moon CourtI barely slept that first night. Kept going over it, the way he'd stood at that table, how his voice dropped when he stopped being careful. Told myself over and over it didn't mean anything. By morning I still hadn't talked myself into believing it.Greta came back at first light. Introduced herself properly this time, said she'd run the King's household since before he took the throne. Her face didn't give much away, but she wasn't unkind about it, just busy, like she had a hundred things to get through before noon and I was somewhere on that list."He wants you fed before the court sees you," she said, laying a dress across the foot of the bed. Deep green, plainer than anything I'd worn to my own ceremony, but well made. "You'll meet the household today. Some of them won't be happy about it.""Why not?"She glanced at me like the question caught her off guard a little. "Because you're the first woman he's brought here meaning to keep. That makes you
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